我们都知道这种感觉。你在悲伤的夜晚失眠，或者在朦胧的周末清晨蹒跚而行，需要一些阅读的东西，而那一堆未读的书并不能阻止你。为什么不从Twitter和RSS的消防水龙带中休息一下，看看我们每周从网络上收集的关于技术、文化、媒体和未来的重要文章？当然，坐在Instapaper队列中你会感到内疚的还有一件事，但总比再次在Twitter列表上徒劳地拉好。

关于“数字仪式”

Dan Hill多年来一直在观察人类如何与数字技术交互，并描述了出现在网络周围的一些常见的紧急手势（谷歌地图涂片、安全***臀部碰撞、Wi-Fi道瑟）。

声音之城：丹山-随笔：21世纪剪贴画收藏

Fig. 8 Wi-Fi Dowser In order to achieve maximum throughput over a wifi network, user meanders around a space, holding tablet or laptop out in front of them, occasionally watching the signal strength indicator, until opti-mum compromise of signal and space is located.

在维基百科上

作家菲利普·罗斯在维基百科上有些麻烦。

《纽约客》：菲利普·罗斯——致维基百科关于阿纳托尔·布罗亚德和“人类污点”的***

Yet when, through an official interlocutor, I recently petitioned Wikipedia to delete this misstatement, along with two others, my interlocutor was told by the "English Wikipedia Administrator"—in a letter dated August 25th and addressed to my interlocutor—that I, Roth, was not a credible source: "I understand your point that the author is the greatest authority on their own work," writes the Wikipedia Administrator—"but we require secondary sources." Thus was created the occasion for this open letter. After failing to get a change made through the usual channels, I don’t know how else to proceed.

在谷歌地图上

亚历克西斯·马德里加尔（Alexis Madrigal）窥视谷歌地图（Google Maps）的幕后，想知道谷歌是如何推动地理智能的巨大转变的。

大西洋：亚历克西斯·马德里加尔——谷歌如何构建地图以及它对未来的一切意味着什么

Let's step back a tiny bit to recall with wonderment the idea that a single company decided to drive cars with custom cameras over every road they could access. Google is up to five million miles driven now. Each drive generates two kinds of really useful data for mapping. One is the actual tracks the cars have taken; these are proof-positive that certain routes can be taken. The other are all the photos. And what's significant about the photographs in Street View is that Google can run algorithms that extract the traffic signs and can even paste them onto the deep map within their Atlas tool.

关于马里奥

史蒂芬·托蒂洛（stephentottilo）深入到档案工作中，在一条时间线上追踪一个名叫马里奥（Mario）的电子游戏玩家的遗产。

Kotaku:Stephen Totilo-将所有超级马里奥游戏放在一个时间表上的非凡追求

If you're making a Mario timeline, where do you put Mario's tennis games? And his kart-racing games? Did Mario really have time to become a doctor, referee Mike Tyson's Punch-Out and teach typing? The Mario timeline-makers don't shrink from questi*** like these. What they do is tend to bundle a lot of that together in a phase of Mario's life when they say he was dabbling with various careers. Dr. Mario, however, can't fit there, so they assume that Mario may have learned medicine then but didn't practice it until later.

2012年

丹·杜雷采访了大卫·莫里森博士，他描述了自己负责管理美国宇航局的Ask-an天体生物学家专栏的职责，该专栏充斥着世界末日的电子邮件。

锥子：丹杜雷-美国宇航局的科学家谁回答你的2012年启示录电子邮件

The proactive approach has not gone terribly well. Sometimes he wonders if, by hanging out his rhetorical shingle, his public resp***es have only fueled a debate that shouldn’t even exist. He's made YouTube videos that painstakingly explain why the world will not end in 2012 only to see the NASA logo at the beginning of the film chopped off and the footage added to other resp***e videos with titles like "NASA CONFIRMS THE EXISTENCE OF NIBIRU." And then there are the comments.

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